Fuqua Homes, Inc. v. Raymond Beattie Sherri Beattie

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Fuqua Homes, Inc., appeals the orders of the district court 1 sustaining Raymond and Sherri Beattie’s motion for judgment as a matter of law and sanctioning Fuqua and its counsel for their conduct before that court. We affirm the district court’s entry of judgment for the Beatties, but we vacate the order imposing sanctions and remand the case to the district court for a hearing on that issue.

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The Beatties, residents of Wapello County, Iowa, contracted with Fairfield Homes, Inc., a modular home dealer in Fairfield, Iowa, to purchase a modular home…